MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax) - The Baikonur city administration has extended local coronavirus restrictions until December 13.
"In accordance with the proposals of the chief state sanitary doctor at the Baikonur complex, administration head Konstantin Busygin has by decree extended the high-alert regime for command and control bodies and the disaster prevention and response system in the city of Baikonur, as well as the restrictive measures to prevent and contain the spread of the coronavirus in the city, until midnight on December 13, 2020," the city administration said in a statement on its website on Friday.
The current restrictions, such as wearing masks during indoor visits, maintaining social distance, and observing sanitary rules and personal hygiene, will remain in place, the statement said.
Baikonur is the administrative and residential center of the eponymous cosmodrome. The restrictions, introduced in the spring, were relaxed in early summer until a new outbreak led to their re-imposition.
Five aircraft carrying specialists from Russia's Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) and the necessary equipment have arrived in Baikonur to help fight coronavirus.
As of November 26, the city had recorded 1,090 infections, 498 patients had been discharged from the hospital, and 69 had died, the FMBA's Baikonur regional directorate said. Currently, nine people are being treated at a hospital for infectious diseases.